Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-01-15
NEBRASKA

Galloway is to have a new bank.
a Sharp county COW suckles a pig.
Poor gas is troubling Nebraska City.
Neigh is to have a new Touring mill.
Beaver City vii invest in u town hall.
Ainsworth is to have a first-class orchestra.
Deer hunting is one Of the sports at Loup
City.
The Fremont water works plant cost S2S,-
600.
A G. A. X. post will be organized at Trcn-
ton.
Beatrice folks are talking Of a ~tobogsan
club.
A board Of trade Is being organized at Au-
burn.
A city hospital would please the citizens Of
Lincoln.
Wayne's improvements last year foo: up
49,, 800.
Broken Bows improvement list foots up
$40, 900.
Lancaster county issued 44l permits TO
wed last year.
Quail shooting is prohibited by law after
January /.
A travelling mems club has been organized
at Norfolk.
A fire at Elk Creek last week destroyed eight
buildings.
Hog cholera is raging in portions OF Fur
mas county.
The people of Dewitt offer a bonus OF Sl5,-
600 to build a railroad to that town.
The new elevator at Oakdale has been com.
pleted and is a model Of convenience.
The postofIice at Pawnce City will receive
1000 new combination lock boxes at once.
The new Methodist Episcopal church at
Chadron will be dedicated either January Q or
Ii.
Harlan county has 2,r36 school children,
and receives 3d. S7. IL as its share Of the school
fund.
The Masons OF Wahoo are making arrange
ments for the erection of a SEQ, 900 temple
next spring.
Lincoln is thinking Of establishing a free
lunch stand and lodging house for the deserv-
ing poor.
Harvard feels proud over the fact that there
is not a saloon or billiard table inside its
limits.
The improvements In the young town Of
Clearwater, Antelope county, for 1856 amount
to SIS, 275.
The city council OF Hastings has ordered
1000 feet OF hose and other appliances for
fire protection.
The Nashville gamblers are considerably ont
Of pocket from attentions paid them by the
county court.
After much consideration BARLEY citizens
have decided to vote bonds for the construc-
ton Of a bridge.
The school children of Wahoo donated
eleven barrels OF good things as a Christmas
Offering TO the poor.
Hamilton county will submit a proposition
to vote $780, 900 for the extension of the Union
Pacific road to Aurora.
As O'Neilli is without fire protection of any
kind, the Free Press suggests the advisability
of organizing a fire department.
BY the overturning Of a sleigh at Dunbar
Otoe county, a shot gun was accidentally dis
CHARGED, killing George Ames.
The county seat Of Blaine county will be re-
moved from Brewster to Ladora, a place only
a quarter OF a mile distant.
Grand Island has a good prospect OF secur.
irg a glucose, sugar and starch factory TO cost
100000, and employ 80 hands.
Deshler Lutherans have cof.e to the conclu-
sion that they need a church, and have taken
steps towards building one.
The Row Valley bank has been reorganized,
its capital increased, and will hereafter b
known as the Harrington state bank.
The presence Of wild geese In the norther n
part Of the state at this season is, according
to "the old inhabitant,' Indicative OF a short
winter.
The Nebraska Bee-keepe-s' association will
hold their next annual convention at Lincoln
commencing January IL and continuing three
days.
Dixon county farmers seldom read papers,
and as a consequence they were swindled out
Of several hundred dollars last week by q
jewelry beat.
The Newport Advocate has changed propri-
etors, Messrs. Mcintyre and Day purchasing
be Independent In politics.
Pierce citizens are becoming so enthusiastic
over theatrical matters that an extension OF
the opera house is being made to accornmo-
date the increasing attendance.
A Phelps county officer has brought suit
against NJ. l.. Thomas, proprietor Of the Hold
redge Republican, for criminal libel. He
will probably ask for sl0,0 900 damages.
Thc Tecumseh Journal urges the farmers OF
the state to take more interest in the plant
ing and raising of fish, as it has proved a
great success In those portions of the state
where it has been undertaken.
Changes on the mail route from Adaton TO
Bordeaux have been made to leave Adaton
Tuesdays ard Saturdays vt Q a. m, and arrive
at Bordeaux at IL m; leave Bordeaux at ! D..
m, and arrive at Adaton at 4 p. IN.
An Ogalalla boy named Sanford, who is
only Z years old, was sentenced to the reform
school for stealing $50. He escaped from the
officer and started down the railroad track
and the officer had to bring a handcar into
equisition to capture him.
Walter F. Ollard, formerly a stenographer
in the employ OF the Burlington and Missouri
railroad at Hastings, nearly ended bis exist
ence at Kansas City, Tuesday, by taking five
grains OF morphine after a spree. He alleged
unreQuited love as the cause.
At Franklin on Tuesday the academy stu.
dents had a Christmas dinner and a New